[Song of laborers in the new era] Planting ＂golden seeds＂ brings new hope for rural revitalization.

　　CCTV News:In today’s May Day special program, we are going to meet a national model worker, Wang Wenshui. He is an ordinary farmer. With his courage and boldness, he has created the history of localization and large-scale planting of American ginseng. He is a Communist party member, leading his fellow villagers to the road of poverty alleviation and common prosperity. Today, 64-year-old Wang Wenshui is still running in the fields, studying the cultivation techniques of American ginseng.

　　The latest cultivation of new American ginseng varieties by busy field management

　　Near the May Day holiday, it is the time for American ginseng to emerge. Wang Wenshui rushed to the ginseng field early in the morning to fight drugs and weed with the workers and busy with field management. This is his latest American ginseng variety. However, a few years ago, American ginseng could not be planted in this land.

　　Wang Wenshui, Secretary of the Party Branch of Kouzili Village, Zhangjiachan Town, Wendeng District, Weihai City, Shandong Province:American ginseng itself has a kind of fungus. After we harvest American ginseng, some broken roots rot in the ground, which causes soil pollution. If you replant American ginseng, it will easily rot, and you can’t replant it for 15 to 20 years.

　　Kouzili Village is the birthplace of Wendeng American ginseng, and almost all the farmland in the village has been planted with American ginseng. Because the soil can’t be recycled, villagers have to go out and rent a new piece of land after harvesting ginseng every four years. This has become one of the biggest bottlenecks restricting the development of local American ginseng. Be sure to improve the soil! With such a goal, Wang Wenshui started round after round of experiments.

　　Wang Wenshui, Secretary of the Party Branch of Kouzili Village, Zhangjiachan Town, Wendeng District, Weihai City, Shandong Province:The 5 cm soil layer on the surface has good air permeability, and this bacterium is active quickly. So we turn this soil layer on the ground to the ground, to a depth of more than one meter, and suffocate this bacteria. At the beginning, I used shovels to shovel the land, and it took more than ten days to turn over an acre of land. In the later period, we had mechanization, and large-scale trucks could turn over more than two acres a day, which was very fast.

　　After 10 years of long exploration, this rural "soil expert" with little knowledge has solved the planting problem that has plagued local people for decades. This year, the planting method of deep ploughing has been applied to more than 100 acres of land.

　　Starting from 11 seeds, laying the industrial foundation of Wendeng American ginseng

　　After dealing with American ginseng for more than 40 years, Wang Wenshui’s passion has not been diminished by the passage of time. In that year, he started from 11 seeds and achieved today’s tens of billions of industries. In 1979, 22-year-old Wang Wenshui ended his four-year military career and returned to his hometown. By chance, Shandong Medicinal Materials Company handed 11 seeds of American ginseng to Wang Jizhen, Wang Wenshui’s father-in-law, for them to try planting. I didn’t expect this "foreign seed" to be "acclimatized".

　　Wang Wenshui, Secretary of the Party Branch of Kouzili Village, Zhangjiachan Town, Wendeng District, Weihai City, Shandong Province:There are a lot of planting difficulties, really a lot, and the transportation and communication are all very backward. Blindly, look at the symptoms with a magnifying glass and a microscope, and compare the books of crops. That’s it. Many things are repeated experiments step by step.

　　In order to record the growth environment and emergence of American ginseng in detail, Wang Wenshui and his father-in-law moved into a deserted mountain forest and recorded the light, temperature and humidity every two hours … … Finally, a month later, 11 seeds sprouted 8 seedlings. It was these eight seedlings that laid the foundation for the development of the whole Wendeng American ginseng industry in the future. Kouzi Licun was the only successful pilot among the nine American ginseng planting sites in Shandong Province at that time. However, just because the planting area on the mountain was too small, Wang Wenshui wanted to move American ginseng into the field below the mountain to plant it. Unexpectedly, the first farmland trial planting failed. After repeated experiments and comparisons, it was found that it was the soil.

　　Wang Wenshui, Secretary of the Party Branch of Kouzili Village, Zhangjiachan Town, Wendeng District, Weihai City, Shandong Province:We began to test and compare the soil of each plot, and finally we found out that there is a kind of resource on our mountain. Its book is called phosphorus-containing weathered soil, so we dug it out on the mountain and pushed it to our farmland one by one to improve the soil.

　　More than 40 years have passed, and the young veterans of that year are now full of white hair. At the beginning, the eight seedlings have now become a planting scale of 55,000 mu and an annual output of more than 7,500 tons. In the American ginseng market in China, 6 out of every 10 American ginseng come from Wendeng.

　　Work tirelessly to lead the whole town to get rich together.

　　"Living a good life with the big guys" is Wang Wenshui’s greatest wish. On the road to rural revitalization, he led the villagers to take off their "poor hats" and sow more and more "golden seeds" in the fields of hope. In the 1980s, it cost about 2,000 yuan to buy a catty of American ginseng seeds, which was enough to build a house. It takes 1.5 kg of seeds to plant one part of American ginseng. Such a large capital investment is unacceptable to ordinary villagers.

　　Tian Mingguo, a villager from Dongquan Village, Zhangjiachan Town, Wendeng District, Weihai City, Shandong Province:At that time, I was worried when I was asked to plant it. I was also afraid of losing it. Secretary Wang said, Ming Guo, there is nothing for you to plant. If you lose it, I will bear it with you. The first harvest was good, and it sold for nearly 300 thousand yuan.

　　In the ginseng field of Zhangjiachan Town, Wang Wenshui can often be seen. Which one encounters planting problems and which one will not build a ginseng pond, Wang Wenshui went door-to-door to guide. Wang Wenshui also wrote the experience of seed ginseng for many years into a manuscript of seed ginseng records, and donated it unreservedly to the medicinal materials station of Wendeng District Agricultural Bureau for vigorous promotion.

　　Wang Wenshui’s youngest daughter Wang Lin:When I was young, when I was eating at home, farmers came to dig up a diseased leaf of American ginseng and show it to my father. No matter whether my father ate the first bite or the last bite in the bowl, he always put down his chopsticks, read them first, and then finish the rest. Sometimes a meal may come to several people, and he may have to eat it several times before he can finish it.

　　With the growing planting area of ordinary people, how can we make money without letting everyone suffer the crime of "facing the loess and facing the sky"? Wang Wenshui took out the energy of trying to plant American ginseng and began to study all kinds of planting machinery.

　　Wang Wenshui, secretary of the Party branch of Kouzili Village, Zhangjiachan Town, Wendeng District, Weihai City, Shandong Province: This machine I developed is called American ginseng fertilizer spreader. I am going to study these three hoppers to hold particles, trace elements and organic fertilizer. These three hoppers flow in the ground at the same time, so that the rotary plow can rotate in the ground, which is uniform, labor-saving, labor-saving and fast.

　　In addition to the fertilizer spreader, Wang Wenshui has also developed a variety of special machinery for American ginseng, such as ridging machine, ginseng washing machine and beard removing machine.

　　Wang Wenshui, Secretary of the Party Branch of Kouzili Village, Zhangjiachan Town, Wendeng District, Weihai City, Shandong Province:I always feel that I am still a Communist party member, and I have benefited from my own cultivation. Why can’t I be rich by myself? I have to bring all the people in the village to be rich, so that I can be happy and feel at ease … …

　　Today, in Wendeng, more than 3,000 farmers have planted American ginseng, and tens of thousands of employees have changed their lives and embarked on the road of getting rich by relying on American ginseng. Wendeng American ginseng has also grown from the earliest simple cultivation to more than 20 deep processing enterprises, and the added value of the industry has increased by more than 50%. Now Kouzili Village is ecologically livable and prosperous, and the appearance of the village has been greatly improved. During the May Day period, Wang Wenshui will also speed up preparations for the American ginseng deep processing workshop to be put into use in June.

　　Wang Wenshui, Secretary of the Party Branch of Kouzili Village, Zhangjiachan Town, Wendeng District, Weihai City, Shandong Province:To be an industry, I think it is worthwhile for people to do one thing well in this life. My goal is to "push the car without falling down". As long as I have a breath, I will continue to fight for American ginseng.